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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03

attached, for the natives cut them
off and sold the skins to the
traders, who, no doubt, helped to
give circulation to the story.
Another reason probably arose
from the fact that the birds are
almost constantly on the wing,
and, as their feet are small and
the legs short, they were hidden =,
by the gorgeous plumage. Z
New Guinea is 1,400 miles in Z
length-a continent almost. Sepa- :
rated from Australia by Torres
strait, it enjoys that delightful .
climate of the tropics, and every r
where throughout it's domain is -
seen the wonderful vegetation =
peculiar to islands washed by the Il
waters of the warm seas. Its v
people, for the most part, are the
genuine Papuans, "fine examples
of savage humanity" as Dr.Wood
says; tall, well-shaped and pow
erful." Their color, that of the body
especially, is sooty brown or black,
though it never quite reaches the jetti-
ness of the negro races.
The legs of the Papuan are long and
thin; his hands are larger than those
of the Malay, and his mouth is large. He
has way of wearing his hair which re-
calls the headdress of the beautiful
Circassian Grip of the dime museum.
This hair is harsh, dry and frizzly. In
youth it is short and compact, but when
the Papuan reaches manhood it forms a
frizzled mop, in which he takes great
pride. Sometimes the face is partially
covered with punches of hair, and the
arms and body are often similarly
clothed.
The houses of Papua, or New Guinea
are elevated on posts. They are simply
constructed, but serve to keep out the
rats and snakes which seem to overrun
the island in some places. Entrance to
the houses is gained by hole in the
flooring, and when the family has retired
for the night the stair-ladder is drawn in
side for protection against robbers. Some
of these houses are very large and serve
for the abode of a number of families
whose compatibility lets them get along
without domestic feuds.
The natives are wonderful canoe and
arrow makers. Their ingenuity has led
them to manufacture knives out OF
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03
THE LAND OF PLUMES.
A COUNTRY WHERE BEAUTIFUL
BIRDS ABOUND.

Ingenious Canoe and Arrow Makers-Mar-
riages Among the New Guineans-The
Pig an Object of Alteration to Them
How the Bird of Paradise is Hunted.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03
DREAMS.
THEIR INFLUENCE OVER THE
MINDS OF MANY.

Celebrated Productions Said to Have
Been Written During Sleep-Time and
Space Annihilated in Visions-The EN-
press Josephine and Mile. Lenormand.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03

'l1o, no !" they -
cried; but he
replied, "'Tis
fair l have a trial )"
"'Tis as you say, but
right" said they; ''un-
just would be denial"
So in the keep of dun
geon deep they placed
him strictly guarded.
But from his jail he
heard the gale sing
Courage is rewarded"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03


arms and waist, where it is said to resem-
BILE delicate blue lace adhering tightly to
the skin. The men do not make use of
the tattoo so much as the women. A tat
toOed belle is one of the village attrac-
lions in the "Land of Plumes," and
the richness of her peculiar adorn-
ments causes no little jealousy among the
less fancifully tattooed members of her
sex. Hunting the bird of Paradise is
the chief occupation of the natives. The
bird is killed with blunt arrows and
sometimes by poison. The least in
jury to the skin renders the whole
specimen unstable. The plumes are in
great demand for the decoration of ladies'
hats in the marts of fashion, and so great
is the call for them that the hunters of
New Guinea are taxed to their utmost
endeavors. Description cannot do justice
to the brilliancy of the plumage of these
wonderful birds, whose cherished
habitat is New Guinea.
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in length, while the smallest is no
longer than ones hand. They are
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-03
Railroad Schedules, etc.
Cumberland 4 Pennsylvania Railroad.

All trains on the schedule stop at Hay street
station, Cumberland. p. L. BURWELL,
General Superintendent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07
SENSIBLE EDUCATION
Many a Boys Life Made Failure by n
System of False Training.


Why is it that we do not exhibit as
much sense in educating our children
as we do in training our animals? A
farmer has a colt and boy. He
studies that colt carefully. He notes
the points in his physical construction,
his disposition and temperament and
he can readily decide whether it is best
20 train him for trotter or a pillow
horse. He would be soundly laughed
at if he should send a heavy-built stolid,
muscular, slow-going animal to ajockey
to be trained for the race course, and
his judgment would be as mercilessly
scored if he should take high-spirited,
graceful young colt with all the points
of trotter in his makeup, and decide
to make draft horse of him. But that
same man will give his son an educa-
ton without consideration of his mental
adaptation to the course of study he is
pursuing. He only knows that
custom has prescribed certain things to
be learned which is called getting an
education, and if he goes through this
course of training, he has got his educa-
ton and his duty as a parent is dis
charged. The result is that boys are
educated away from the work of life
they are adapted to, instead of being
properly prepared for what their nat
ural qualifications fit them to do well.
This is why the boy who would have
made a successful machinist, goes
through life as a poor preacher or a
third-rate lawyer, and a discontinued
blacksmith hammers his life and ener-
gy out at the forge, with talents and in
clinations which would have made him
a successful physician. A human life
may be made a success by good edu-
cation, and it can just as surely be
made a failure by system of false
training. Indiscrimnate education with
out considering adaptation is a grave
defect in our present educational sys-
tenn. 1t involves not only waste of
time and money, but a most fearful
waste of human energy, by misdirected
application. If there is any one course
of training that is adapted to all, what
ever pursuit in life they may follow, it
is the education afforded by reliable
business training. Every person is
compelled to have business dealings
with his fellow men, and II thorough
preparation for the business affairs of
life can not well involve an unwse ex-
penditure of time, money or effort
Western PloWmdn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07
A LENlENT VERDICT.
An assertion That the Jury in the Watt.
Schwartz Case Erred, if at All. on the
Side OF Mercy to the CuIprits.

An assertion That the Jury in the Watt.
Schwartz Case Erred, if at All. on the
Side OF Mercy to the CuIprits.
Commenting on the verdict of i'm.
prisonnent for life pronounced by the
jury against the prisoners on trial fol-
the murder of Express Messenger
Nichols the Chicago Herald says:
1t was the instant and unanimous
verdict of the jury that tried Watt and
Schwartz that both were guilty of the
atrocious murder of Kellogg Nichols.
Such a conviction was forced, prob.
ably, upon the minds of most persons
who followed the trial as reported in
the newspapers. The verdict was i'm.
prisonment for life. If these men were
guilty the death penalty might more
properly have been pronounced upon
them, for the killing of a brave man en-
gagged in the faithful performance of a
duty, defending his trust fearlessly and
aggressively until stricken down by
vulgar robbers who, for protection,
probably, from the consequences OF
their crime, became assassins, was not
only an actrocious, it was also despi-
cable crime. The mere robbery would
have justified the imposition of long
term of Imprisonment upon the offend
ers. The crime deepened into murder,
is not sufficiently condemned, the
assassin' are not adequately punished,
short Oftke gibbet. 1t is odd, then,
that whee there was such unanimity
OF CONCLUSION as to the guilt of the
accused and sentence which
might b. regarded as merciful
under the circumstances, any sug.
gestion shqld be offered that the
punishment amed by the jury is ex-
IRENE. Theprisoners are entitled tc
the usual reviw, but upon the finding
of their guilt, finding generally con
coded to accortwith the fact, they arr
entitled to no Consideration whatever
If guilty, they lay thank their stars
that the jury hasbeen so lenient as tc
give them life science.
The case seems to have been fairly
tried. The State wa jealous and indie.
fatigable. The defeIse was the strong
est that could be mao. 1t is highly
improbable that the jry has erred. Tc
seek sympathy for theprisoners while
admitting their guilt isridiculous. II
the horrible crime thereyasn't singl,
MITIGATING circumstance
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07
ExTEMPORE SPEAKING.
A Gentleman Asserts Upon Authority OF
Webster, That There Is No Such Thing.

A Gentleman Asserts Upon Authority OF
Webster, That There Is No Such Thing.
A gentleman who has achieved quite
a reputation as an extempore speaker
says that there is no such thing, and he
has Daniel Webster on his side in MAIN
tanning this claim, for that matter.
There is, to be sure" he says, ''such
thing as depending on the inspiration
of the moment, but you have got to
sketch out something in your mind as
a beginning, even if only for the pur-
pose OF throwing it all away, point by
point, when you get up. My plan is to
go to work about day beforehand and
imagine the speech that am going to
make, from beginning to end. In the
calm of my chamber, of course, 1 can
think up number of things to say.
When l get up to speak lean remember
these things in general way, but the
difficulty is to connect them logically
and continuously. Very often the con-
nection becomes exceedingly rough,
and there is where the inspiration of
the moment comes in. Some shred
of thought that comes from glimpse
of some one in the room that you know
taking the shape of a humorous refer
ence to him will help you out wonder
fully, for the personal always takes.
Once get the people to laughing at
some of your carefully thought out ex-
temporaneous humor, and you can get
in any sort of chestnut on them-even
the story of the tramp who was offered
a ticket to banquet, when he was beg
ging for money to buy food, and who,
when he found out there were going to
be after-dinner speeches at this dinner,
preferred to 90 out and lie down behind
3 shed and die. This story always
makes your hearers laugh and acts
like wet blanket on the fellows who
come after you, thus giving your adj
dress q relative brilliancy that it might
not possess otherwise. Stories, stories
always; don't forgot those. And ifyou
can't remember the connection that
you were going to tell them in, tell
them anyway. But if you really find
that you have thought of something
new since you got up, and are actually
inspired to say something that yor
hadn't on your programme, don't hest
tate to say it; that one inspiration may
give your whole speech flavor of ex
temporaneousness. And above all
don't get into your shell and refuse eve
to make speeches, because that is sim
ply means of incapacitating yourself
Talk up, somehow, and you will do a;
well as the rest, after awhile. -Bostol
Transcript,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07
MUSEUM CURiOSITIES.
Managers Who Claim that Human Freaks
Are Easily Duplicated.

A reporter paid visit recently to
several dime museums along the Bow
cry and made Investigations concerning
rejected human curiosities. He dis
covered that feeling of intense
jealousy existed among the proprietors
of these places. Where one had gained
possession of a particularly drawing at
traction. the others sneered and limited
that the same freak had been refused
admittance to their places several
weeks before.
THAT tattood female on exhibition
down the street, said one, sis chest
nut in the business. remember when
the first attraction of this kind was
offered to the public. He was Greek,
so they advertised. 1t was not long
before tattooed men came upon the
market by the hundred. There must
have been factory engaged especially
in their production. They amt no
earthly use nowadays. You can put
them down as a rejected curiosity every
time. Fat men and women are also
played out, although my neighbor up
the street does not think so. Iengaged
one several years ago on a contract e1-
tending over period of twelve months
She lost $50 pounds within half that
time, although we spent pile of dust
feeding her, and we lost big money on
the business. We will look at nothing
of the kind now short of a young girl
or boy weighing near 400"
Another museum on the opposite side
of the Bowery, several blocks farther
up town, had on exhibition a living
skeleton. The proprietor said he would
be glad when his contract expired.
you can't do nothing with these
bone yards" he said, although they
used to draw big money. In fact am
careful how l make long time ar
rangement with any human curiosity.
There never was one yet that had not a
duplicate. Take the India-rubber man,
for instance. He was advertised all over
the land, but bless my heart if there
wasn't three or four other fellows of the
same kind that showed up within six
months. Do you want to know my
opinion? Well, believe them fakirs
are nothing more than fat men gone of
in weight. Take a couple of hundred
pounds out of the skin of a man, and
you can gamble he'll have plenty of
skin to pull out from all parts of his
body"
Another proprietor spoke disdainfully
of Circassian girls, twins of the Siamese
kind and other standard attractions.
II reject more wonderful beings than
these are every day OF my life" he con-
tinued. 1--WE got the business down
fine and will accept nothing but mon
strosities. The public flock to see my
dog-faced man. ANOTHER attraction |
had some months ago was woman
with hands growing from her ankles
and feet growing from her wrists, Any
1ideous deformity attracts the morbid
curiosity of the public. Some of these
over-smart fellows thought they had a
wonder in Steve Brodie after his leap
from the bridge. l would not touch
him, for knew some other crank would
do the same thing and bust the market
on bridge-jumpers. ~ Y Mail and
Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07
Jenks' Dream.

jerks had queer dream the other night.
He thought he saw a prize-ighters' ring,
and in the middle Of it stood doughty little
champion who met and deliberately knocked
over, one by one, a score or more of big,
burly-looking fellows, as they advanced to
The attack. Giants as they were in size,
the valiant pigmy proved more than a
jerks woke up laughing. He accounts for
the dream by the fact that he had just come
to the conclusion, after trying nearly every
big, drastic pill on the market, that Pierce's
tiny Purgative Pellets easily knock out"
and beat all the rest hollowt
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07
Henry Georges Wife.

Though Henry George has acquired
such large celebrity, his wife's name
las hardly been mentioned in the pa
pers that speak of him so often and so
much She is a thorough home body,
devoted to her husband and their four
children. She is one of the small,
plump, CHEEKY bodies that never get
'down-hearted, and people who have
known them long time say that but
for her unflagging devotion and enthu-
isiastic belief in him Mr. George would
never have been able to come triumph
antly through the long period of strait
ened means and hard work which pre-
coded his sudden success. - Chicago
Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
Personal Appearance of the Unfortunate
Rival of Elizabeth


Rival of Elizabeth.
Her complexion, though likened by
Brantome to alabaster and IVORY, does
not seem to have possessed the clear
ness and brilliancy which the compare
son implies; for Sir James Melville,
though anxious to vindicate his Queens
claim to be considered every lovely"
and 1.-THE fairest lady in her country"
acknowledged that she was less
white" than Elizabeth. The bright
ness of her eyes, which Brantome
hkened to stars and Chastelard to bea-
cons, has not been questioned; but
their color is point about which there
is less unanimity, opinions varying be-
tween hazel and dark gray. As regards
her hair, the discrepancy of contem-
porary authorities is even greater
Brantome and Ronsard describe
wealth of golden hair, and this is to a
certain extent confirmed by Sir James
Melville, who, when called upon by
Elizabeth to pronounce whether his
Queens hair was fairer than her own,
answered that "the fairnes of them
bath was not their worst faltes." To
this, however, must be opposed the
testimony of Nicholas White, who,
writing to Cecil in 1868, described the
Queen as black haired. The explana-
ton of this may possibly lie in Mary's
compliance with the fashion, introduced
about this time, of wearing wigs. In
deed, Knollys informed White that she
wore chair of sundry colors," and, in
letter to Cecil, praised the skill with
which Mary Seton-"the finest busker
of hair to be seen in any countrywide
set such a curled hair upon the Queen,
that was said to be a perewyke, that
showed very delicately."
According to one account, the Queen
of Scots wore black, according to an
other, auburn ringets on the morning
of her execution. Both, however, agree
in this, that when the false covering
fell she appeared as gay as if she had
been sixty and ten years old"
Mary's hand was white, but not
small, the long, tapering fingers
mentioned by Branto being, in
deed, characteristic ONE of her
portraits. She was OF stature, tai
Ter than Elizabeth, which made the
Queen of England pronouce her cousin
to be too tall, she herself being, ac-
cording to her own standard, ''neither
too high nor too low" Her voice wes
irresistibly soft and sweet. Not only
does Brantome extol it as "tres douce
ct tres bonnie" and Ronsard POLITICALLY
celebrate it as capable of moving rocks
and woods, but Knox, although I'M
graciously and unwillingly, also testi-
fies to its charms. He informs us that
at one of her Parliaments the Queen
made "paynted orison," and that, on
this occasion, "thair mycht have been
hard among hir hatterias, 'Vox Dian@r
The voice of goddess for it could
not be Dei) and not of woman! God
save the sweet face! Was THAR ever
oratour spack so properlie and so
sweetlier' -Gentleman's Ma0aziise.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07
WARFARE-corned beef and hard tack
Merchant TrdveLer.


is often the result OF "bad blood" in a fami-
ly or community, but nowhere is bad blood
moro destructive Of happiness and health
than in the human system. When the life
current is foul and sluggish with impuri-
ties, and is slowly distributing its poisons
to every part Of the body, the peril to
health, and life even, is imminent. Early
symptoms are dull and drowsy feelings,
severe headaches, coated tongue, poor appe-
tite, Indigestion and general lassitude. De-
lay in treatment may entail the most seri-
GUS consequences. Don't let disease get q
strong hold on your constitution, but treat
yourself by using DR.. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery, and be restored to the bless
ings of health. All druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

JUNE 1881, wrote G. c. Atkins, Beaver
Beaver Co., Pa, sprained my wrist badly,
pain dreadful. Tried st. Jacobs Oil; in ten
minutes pain ceased; am cured" October
20, 1856, he writes: II have had no pains
since"
~ had four children sick: coughs and
sore-throat," says j. T. Ridgely, Bowling
Green, Howard County, Nd. % gave Red
Star Cough Cure; it cured them; cured my
self also of hoarseness and chest oppression
with it. Price, twenty-five cents. AT
Druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

Sir John Lubbock, who is an ar
dent student of botany as well as of
other branches of science, has long
been puzzled, he says, by the peculiar
saddle-like shape of the leaves of the
tulip tree. After many speculations,
mono of which turned out to be cor.
rect, he examined the structure of the
bud and the manner in which the
leaves are packed into it. This showed
him that the remarkable form of the
mature leaf is due 20 the mode in which
the young leaves are arranged in the
bud.-M. \. Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

"A new arrangement has been added
to the chestnut bell" Now when the
bell is struck miniature rat runs across
the breast of the wearer and stops in
full view of the victim. To make it
more effective the word Gratis" is in
scribed ON the rat Chicago Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

She is prematurely deprived of her charma
of face and form, and made unattractive by
the wasting effects of ailments and irregu-
larities peculiar to her sex. To check this
drain upon, not only her strength and
health, but upon her amiable qualities as
well, is her first duty. This is safely and
speedily accomplished by course of self
treatment with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription, nervine and tonic of wonderful
efficacy, and prepared especially for the
alienation of those suffering from drag
ging down" pains, sensations of nausea,
and weakness incident to women-a boon
to her sex. Druggists.
ONE good drink of Jersey lightning will
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

THE difference between the lover and the
epicure is, one lives to love and the other
loves to live.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

''PLL always take your part, sis" a, the
BOY SAID when he robbed his little sister OF
her portion of the gingerbread.-N Y.
Ledger
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

IT is now asserted that the human race is
240,0 years old. No wonder the hair is
all wore off the top of its head. -Danvilt
Breeze.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

FISH are generally found in schools, and,
like all scholars, they are inclined to play
hockey. "-BoSton Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

SOME men are so hard headed that soften
ing of the brain would improve thcm.-N
o. Picdyune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

IT isn't necessary to serve term in The
house of correction in order to be good
proof reader.- Chicago Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

"MERELY a slip of the pen," apologized
the owner of pig, who was doing his best
to destroy the symmetry of neighbours
garden plats.-EIchdnge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

WHEN young man is paying attention
to young lady he is a sort of court plaster
-New Hdvep NeuS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

A NEW spark arrester-a female fire brig
ade. columbus Dispatch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

THE cheapest way to get rid OF a bore Is
to lend him money.-MilDdukee Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

If you want to see wildcat, simply
hold up the domestic article by the tail
-NeW Hoven NeWS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

ToNeUE-TIED women do not always
make the best wives.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-07

THE dude is oleomargarine to the man.
Whitehall Times.